Elizabeth Gray

Biography

From http://www.basilgray.com/ch6.htm (dead link)

In 1605 John Gray married Elizabeth Ward at St. Mary’s Church in Harrow-On-Hill. Elizabeth was from Harrow-on-Hill herself, and all the couple’s children were born there. (Their births were actually recorded both in Harrow-on-Hill and in Stapleford Tawney.) Elizabeth’s father was a Sir William Ward of London.

A.P. Clarke in the "Clarkes Genealogies" quotes from the The Parish Registers of Stapleford Tawney, Essex Co., England, as printed at the private press of Frederick Arthur Crisp, Grove Park, Denmark Hill, London, S.E., 1892, states that John Gray of that place had the following children:

• Richard, baptized August 1608, buried October 9, 1613.
• Joshua, baptized November 25, 1610, buried January 20, 1621.
• John, baptized February 7, 1613, died 1658. Married Elizabeth. Emigrated to the Plymouth Colony but returned to England.
• Sarah, baptized January 12, 1616, married Thomas Harding May 30, 1642.
• Rebecca, baptized 1615, married Thomas Perry May 28, 1650.
• Joan, buried February 12, 1621.
• Edward, baptized April 15, 1623 (no further mention in parish records), died June 30, 1681. Married 1) Mary Winslow 2) Dorothy Lettice. Emigrated to the Plymouth Colony.
• Thomas, baptized July 16, 1620 (no further mention in parish records), died June 7, 1654. Married Joane Wheatley. Emigrated to the Plymouth Colony.
• Anne, baptized June 30, 1632, died November 5, 1694. Married 1) Francis Grey 2) Edward Colllingwood.

From http://www.basilgray.com/ch6.htm (dead link)

Of the remaining six children: John (1611-1658) inherited the family home in Stapleford and most of the family business ventures, Rebecca (1615-?) married Thomas Perry of Stapleford and died there. Sarah (1616-?) married Thomas Harding in Stapleford and remained there. Anne (1632-?) married first Francis Grey, and secondly Edward Collingwood of Northumberland, England. Anne and Edward removed to Scotland.

Notes

They attended Greensted Church at Thoydon Mount,a Church of England with no Puritan parishioners. The family attended ST MICHAEL’S THEYDON MOUNT - because there were no puritans attending there - the rector worked for both Stapleford Tawney and Theydon Mount.

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46371463/john-graie

John Graie was the son of Alexander Graie of London and ?

Raised by his mother in Harrow-on-Hill, London and in 1605 married Elizabeth Ward there. Birth records for all the children of John and Elizabeth were recorded at Harrow On Hill and at Stapleford Tawney. John was recorded as "Landed Gentry and Merchant Shipper" in Stapleford vital records. He seems to have gone back and forth between Stapleford and London frequently and sailed for America at least once. He worked with the "Council for New England, a company with a charter authorizing settlement around Mass Bay Colony to the North of P'limout." In 1630 that same company planted over 1000 Puritans under John Winthrop of Suffolk around Dorchester, Roxbury, Watertown, Cambridge, Charlestown and Boston. Puritanism was very strong around Essex where John and his family lived, but we have no evidence they were Puritans. They attended Greensted Church at Thoydon Mount,a Church of England with no Puritan parishioners.

His wife Elizabeth Ward(e) died in London, Westminster. John was buried in Tawney.

• Ancestry tree (sourced)
• http://synapse.cs.byu.edu/~randy/gen/gray.html (dead link)
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46371463/john-graie